We present a novel method for opto-mechanical cooling of subwavelength-sized nanomechanical resonators. Our scheme uses a highfinesse Fabry-Perot cavity of small mode volume, within which the nanoresonator acts as a position-dependent perturbation by scattering. In return, the back-action induced by the cavity affects the nanoresonator dynamics and can cool its fluctuations. We investigate such cavity cooling by scattering for a nanorod structure and predict that ground-state cooling is within reach. © IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
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Favero, I., & Karrai, K. (2008). Cavity cooling of a nanomechanical resonator by light scattering. New Journal of Physics, 10. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/10/9/095006
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